Selasa, 25 Oktober 2016

Giant Panda

Hello, Guys! In this time, I want to tell you about one of the rare animals in the world. This animal is so cute. Very big body, but very soft. It has black and white fur. Can you guess what? Yes, Panda.

The Classification

•Kingdom:
Animalia

•Phylum:
Chordata

•Clade: Synapsida

•Class:
Mammalia

•Order:
Carnivora

•Suborder:
Caniformia

•Family:
Ursidae

•Genus:
Ailuropoda

•Species:
A. melanoleuca

The Description

The
giant panda has luxuriant black-and-white fur. Adults measure around 1.2 to 1.9
m (4 to 6 ft) long, including a tail of about 10–15 cm (3.9–5.9 in), and 60 to
90 cm (2.0 to 3.0 ft) tall at the shoulder.[31][32] Males can weigh up to 160
kg (350 lb).Females (generally 10–20% smaller than males) can weigh as little
as 70 kg (150 lb), but can also weigh up to 125 kg (276 lb). Average adult
weight is 100 to 115 kg (220 to 254 lb).

The giant panda has a body shape typical of
bears. It has black fur on its ears, eye patches, muzzle, legs, arms and
shoulders. The rest of the animal's coat is white.The giant panda's paw has a
"thumb" and five fingers; the "thumb" – actually a modified
sesamoid bone – helps it to hold bamboo while eating.The giant panda's tail,
measuring 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 in), is the second-longest in the bear family.
(The longest belongs to the sloth bear.)The giant panda typically lives around
20 years in the wild and up to 30 years in captivity.

Behavior

The giant panda is a terrestrial animal and
primarily spends its life roaming and feeding in the bamboo forests of the
Qinling Mountainsand in the hilly Sichuan Province.Giant pandas are generally
solitary,and each adult has a defined territory,

Pandas communicate through vocalization and
scent marking such as clawing trees or spraying urine.They are able to climb
and take shelter in hollow trees or rock crevices, but do not establish
permanent dens. For this reason, pandas do not hibernate, which is similar to
other subtropical mammals, and will instead move to elevations with warmer
temperatures.Pandas rely primarily on spatial memory rather than visual memory.

Though the panda is often assumed to be
docile, it has been known to attack humans, presumably out of irritation rather
than aggression

Reproduction

When mating, the female is in a crouching,
head-down position as the male mounts her from behind. Copulation time is
short, ranging from 30 seconds to five minutes, but the male may mount her repeatedly
to ensure successful fertilization. The gestation period ranges from 95 to 160
days.

Giant pandas give birth to twins in about
half of pregnancies.If twins are born, usually only one survives in the wild.
The mother will select the stronger of the cubs, and the weaker will die. The
mother is thought to be unable to produce enough milk for two cubs, since she
does not store fat.The father has no part in helping raise the cub.

When the cub is first born, it is pink,
blind, and toothless,weighing only 90 to 130 grams (3.2 to 4.6 ounces), or
about 1/800th of the mother's weight, proportionally the smallest baby of any
placental mammal. One to two weeks after birth, the cub's skin turns gray where
its hair will eventually become black.

Conservation

In 2006, scientists reported that the
number of pandas living in the wild may have been underestimated at about
1,000. Previous population surveys had used conventional methods to estimate
the size of the wild panda population, but using a new method that analyzesDNAfrom pandadroppings, scientists
believe the wild population may be as large as 3,000. In 2006, there were 40
panda reserves in China, compared to just 13 reserves two decades ago. As the
species has been reclassified to "vulnerable" since 2016, the
conservation efforts are thought to be working. Furthermore, in response to
this reclassification, theState
Forestry Administration of Chinaannounced
that they would not accordingly lower the conservation level for panda, and
would instead reinforce the conservation efforts.

The giant panda is among the world's most
adored and protected rare animals, and is one of the few in the world whose
natural inhabitant status was able to gain aUNESCO World Heritage Sitedesignation. TheSichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries,
located in the southwestSichuanprovince and covering seven natural
reserves, were inscribed onto the World Heritage List in 2006.

Uses

In contemporary times many people who
do business with the subject panda. One way to make a zoo or wildlife refuges.

In japan or china area now many animals
panda targeted hunt. Therefore, these animals should diletarikan to avoid
extinction or discharged. One way to make a zoo or nature reserve. Especially
in indonesia is now just a few animals panda in the zoo particular. Therefore
we should be able to take advantage of these conditions to do business these
animals. Because these animals have the advantage.

A few minutes before the massive
earthquake struck central china earlier this week, a number of giant pandas
living in zoos looked nervous. It may be evidence that the panda has the
ability to detect earthquakes.